AllMusic reviewer Jon O'Brien called the record a "highly ambitious space-themed concept album" which is "packed full of heavy, riff-laden guitars, prog metal beats, and Hollywood star Jared Leto's soaring vocals and sci-fi lyrics, making it one of the more convincing actor-turned-rock star efforts".
Brosnan would not put a full price on baseball's New York All-Star effort, but said that the cost of creating and situating the Statues of Liberty was about $500,000.
Upon further reflection, it is a brave and daring 4-star effort that deserves to be heard by any fan of adventurous pop music".
Ryan Mcgee of Zap2it described the revelation that Locke was a paraplegic as being "one of the show's signature moments", and commented that the episode "cemented the show as 'Must-See TV'" and was "a five-star effort".
This is a step beyond the groans that have long been evoked by stars' efforts to capture foreigners' speech.
Thus, if you scroll down to the one-star efforts on Netflix, you'll find such fantasies as Iron Sky (Nazis escape to the moon).
Geocities, founded in 1994, was one of the first build-your-own website schemes, one which created a zillion grim-looking white-text-on-black-backgrounds-with-stars efforts, and two zillion "under construction" signs.
From the exhausting all-star efforts of the 50s and 60s like It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World to Steven Spielberg's 1941 and now Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder Director's Cut ($34.98; Dreamworks), there's something about a big budget that just kills the spontaneity and lightness that comedy demands.
I'm not sure if that means four stars for effort, or four stars for not swearing.
Disney's debut Star Wars effort, following the studio's $4bn purchase of Lucasfilm in October 2012, now boasts $1.939bn globally, and is nearing Titanic's total of $2.186bn from 1997 – the second-highest haul of all time behind Avatar.
What makes them unparalleled is the thunderous accumulation of the small details that escape standard historical accounts -- the psychology of wearing the yellow star, the effort to face Gestapo interrogations with courage, the anti-Semitic taunts of children on the street, the ban on having clothes washed in "Aryan" laundries.
